ABSTRACT
The domestic labour debate can be seen as just one part of a much wider concern with the sources of women’s oppression. Whilst focusing on the allocation and appropriation of women’s labour, the analysis of domestic labour did raise other material issues, less those of an ideological nature: issues such as the relationship between capital and the family and between sex and class. However, these problems can be broached on a much broader front, so that women’s position can be assessed on the basis of a wider range of explanatory factors and a correspondingly wider set of consequences than were encompassed by a calculus of labour time formed around domestic and wage employment alone.
